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Local girls use cardboard, hangers and masking tape to build a robotic arm – and possible career options – with help from Girls Inc. of Greater Indianapolis.
Funds will support summer programs, including arts, career exploration and employment, community service, sports and more.
40,000 adults in Marion County lack basic literacy skills and even more lack functional literacy. Leveraging volunteer manpower and adult students’ goals, Indy Reads provides free tutoring – and results.
More than $332,000 in grants were awarded to nine not-for-profits and libraries serving Marion County
Latoya was a quiet seven-year-old when she started taking arts classes through the Indianapolis Art Center's ArtReach program in 2003. So how'd she end up teaching them?
Low- to moderate-income taxpayers save money and don’t have to resort to predatory preparation services anymore.
Central Indiana continues to struggle with unemployment and many workers face joblessness for the first time. Facing the challenge, libraries and WorkOne partner to provide local job hunters with knowledge, skill and hope for new work.
Like cities around the country, urban and community gardens are becoming increasingly popular in Indianapolis. Yet some soil in city neighborhoods contains toxic amounts of lead. An IUPUI scientist is working to make urban gardens safe.
24 million children and young adults in the United States are growing up without a caring father in their lives, and they're paying a high price. But with the help of Fathers and Families Center, some young men in Indianapolis are learning to become the fathers they never had.
Learn about how you might be able to help following the recent natural disasters that have impacted residents in Marysville, Henryville and across Southern Indiana.
Project Home will be the only facility in all of Marion County that serves pregnant and homeless teenagers.
“Media Center Enrichment Grants” designed to spur collaborative teaching, aid English Language Learners, add “high-interest” materials to library collections, more
The Glick Fund, a fund of Central Indiana Community Foundation (CICF), has announced grants to 27 local organizations totaling $1.6 million. Grants range from $5,000 to $250,000 and include gifts to central Indiana not-for-profits with a focus in one of four areas: arts, education, human needs and the alleviation of suffering, and self-sufficiency and job skills.
The Indianapolis Foundation, an affiliate of the Central Indiana Community Foundation, awarded more than $778,000 in grants to not-for-profits serving Marion County on September 16th, 2011 as part of its Community Fund and Library Fund grants programs.
A community center designed by the community... for the community
Funds will support summer programs, including arts, career exploration and employment, community service, sports and more
Inside INdiana Business mention of Efroymson Family Fund as major contributor to Gleaners' capital campaign.
The Efroymson Contemporary Arts Fellowship awarded five artists from Indiana and Illinois $20,000 grants to help them continue their artistic development. The Fellowship, made possible by the Indianapolis-based Efroymson Family Fund, has distributed $600,000 to artists in six years.
The Efroymson Family Fund, a fund of Central Indiana Community Foundation, and Jeremy Efroymson will donate $1 million to Butler University.
Over 1,300 additional Marion County eighth-grade students joined the Twenty-first Century Scholars Program as the result of the CICF Twenty-first Century Scholars Enrollment Challenge.
Research shows that all students lose some of what they’ve learned during the school year while they’re on summer vacation.
The Twenty-first Century Scholars program, established in 1990 by the State of Indiana, encourages low-income middle school students to prepare for post-secondary opportunities.
The Summer Youth Program Fund, a collaboration of 11 local and national funding partners and affiliate funds, announces grant awards of nearly $2.5 million, up from 2.2 million in 2009. These grant dollars will go to 161 organizations offering 189 programs proposing to serve more than 40,000 youth in Marion County this summer.
The Summer Youth Program Fund, a collaboration of 10 local partners and affiliate funds, announces grant awards of more than $2.2 million. These grant dollars will go to 150 organizations offering 176 programs proposing to serve more than 40,000 youth in Marion County this summer.
Partners launch awareness campaign to help neighbors in need deal with worsening economy.
The Town of Arcadia Incorporation, in partnership with Hamilton County Convention and Visitors Bureau, recently received $20,000 from Legacy Fund, the community foundation serving Hamilton County, to support a revitalization of downtown Arcadia into an artisan area. It was one of ten local organizations selected by Legacy Fund in the third quarter grant round.
Indianapolis Power & Light Company (IPL) has made another financial commitment to education in central Indiana, this time to impact the lives of the 400 Indianapolis Public Schools’ (IPS) students attending New Tech High @ Arsenal Tech.
